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Dedicated to serving those whose lives have been touched by lossSat, 29 Jun 2013 00:16:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Dress Rehearsal for Mourning by A.k.https://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/dress-rehearsal-for-mourning/#comment-201
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:16:20 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=473#comment-201Yes. I have a family member losing the battle to speed and heroin. I find myself preparing for his death. Even more so lately as he has already lost completely everything. Kids, wife, job, home, and everything else. He is truly alone. Homeless. And hopeless. With many felonies and charges.
It is a unique experience I would imagine. It’s really a combination of wanting to step in, knowing you shouldnt, and feeling guilty.
I try to prep myself on how to handle it when he passes. I catch myself doing this and it is in a voice as if he has already passed away. It is a horrible feeling to know that you think of your own loved one this way. A lot of guilt is involved. Every goodbye may be the last, and you want to be hopeful, but when someone doesn’t want to help themselves… It is hard to maintain a vision of a positive future.

Where does he go when he has nowhere left to fall? Rock bottom has been reached.

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Thu, 30 May 2013 23:28:04 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=680#comment-200I agree, having just gone through this myself with my husband. His mom was out for walk one morning on a country road in front of her home and was hit by a young man driving to work. We not only had to attend to the loss and the services – saying our good-byes – but cleaning out the house and selling it was overwhelming. Every trip to the house was additionally haunted with all of those orange circles and streak marks the police painted on the tar top near her drive way: her final earthly resting place before she drew her last breath.
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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:31:08 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=666#comment-177Hi there! Would you mind if I share your blog with my
twitter group? There’s a lot of people that I think would really enjoy your content. Please let me know. Cheers
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Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:31:25 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=680#comment-147Hi Julie. I love the step by step breakdown of this process. It really appeals to the OCD side of my personality 🙂 Clearing out a parents house is insanely overwhelming emotionally and from a time management perspective. I think this article condenses the process really nicely. It’s something I can get my head around and that makes the task a bit less monstrous in perception.
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Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:06:11 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=677#comment-145It’s the evilness such as this, that makes our positive counter attack, that much more powerful. I can only hope, as a parent myself, that the casualties of Friday morning, will only make the enemy’s of the evil in this world, that much more stronger. Not a single one of the lives taken that day, passed on in vane. And are now, on their next fantastic journey, we will all take someday. Such young warriors indeed!
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Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:40:53 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=677#comment-144It’s the evilness such as this, that makes our positive counter attack, that much more powerful. I can only hope, as a parent myself, that the casualties of Friday morning, will only make the enemy’s of the evil in this world, that much more stronger. Not a single one of the lives taken that day, passed on in vane. And are now, on their next fantastic journey, we will all take someday. Such young warriors indeed!
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Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:41:23 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=634#comment-115Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is one of the best authors to read when you’ve gone through loss. I loved On Death & Dying and I’ve also read The Tunnel & the Light. How to Deal with Grief by Karen Colquhoun is a good read too. What I have found difficult is that people who havent gone through something big don’t understand. I get right on the phone and call any helpline, anyone that will listen.
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Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:33:12 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=606#comment-114Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is one of the best authors to read when you’ve gone through loss. I loved On Death & Dying and I’ve also read The Tunnel & the Light. How to Deal with Grief by Karen Colquhoun is a good read too. It depends on the sort of day I’m having whether it’s easier or harder to let go.
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:02:01 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-92Great blog about funeral chapel
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:00:42 +0000http://griefresourcecenter.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-91Great blog about funeral chapel
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